Supply List and Info for Heart Quilt class January 11th 2020

Happy New Year Everyone!

Anyone else ready to start sewing in 2020?

If you have not signed up and wish to join in on the Heart sewing class January 11th. Get in touch with Eileen I. for all the detailed information.

Here is a list of items to bring to class other than the fabric requirements listed on the previous post.

Supplies:

Ruler for squaring up HST’s (photo below)
Sewing machine with 1/4 inch foot ( and basic supplies for your machine)
Cutting Matt, rotary cutter, plastic template for cutting
Personal iron & mat if you want at your spot- optional since we will have irons set up.
Extension to run iron and machine. We have a few available to use.
Optional- Frixion pen

If you have questions regarding the quilt, you can either text or call Helen E at  609-425-2976.

Fundraiser Workshop Saturday January 11, 2020 ***Fabric amounts have been updated Dec 13th 2019

New Workshop Fundraiser January 11, 2020

tap the link above for details

Materials list for April workshop Applique the Fun and Easy Way with Barb Vedder

Applique the Fun and Easy Way Workshop

with Barb Vedder

Thursday April 11th, 2019

Click here for the link to the materials list.

Blooming Nine Patch Workshop Information

Blooming Nine Patch Workshop 

presented by Helen Ernst

March 16th, 2019

Millman Center 

Class starts at 10:00am doors open at 9:30am

Click on the link below to print the materials list.

Blooming Nine Patch Workshop Materials List March 16th 2019

Sankofa Stitchers is excited to be a Promotional Partner for the upcoming Quilt Luminarium by Ricky Tims coming to the Ewing Township, NJ area May 7-8, 2018. The ALL-NEW Quilt Luminarium by Ricky Tims will be held at theBrower Student Center at The College of New Jersey in Ewing Township, NJ on May 7-8, 2018 (Monday and Tuesday). We wanted to make sure that you all are aware of this educational, fun-filled event, and we encourage you to visit www.quiltluminarium.com to learn about the details. Join Ricky for a two-day comprehensive quilt symposium that demystifies seemingly complex concepts, teaches mastery of unique techniques, and harnesses the power of the ever-elusive muse of creativity. To register for the event, visit www.quiltluminarium.com and click REGISTER HERE ONLINE

If you need more details on the seminar, feel free to email heather@rickytims.com

Guest Speaker Karen from Redbird Quilt Co. in September and Workshop Tuesday September 12th!

Please note workshop is Tuesday Sept 12th, 2017 at Millman Center 9:30am-4pm.

Align Your Free Motion Quilting Stars Lecture and Trunk Show 

 Geared toward domestic machine quilters (90-120 minutes) New in 2016:  Free Motion Quilting lecture that will educate on a variety of tips and tricks to help align your free motion quilting stars. I share 25-30 quilts and projects in my trunk and talk in detail about the projects that I quilted on my home machine. I point out key factors that help you become successful at domestic machine quilting – let’s avoid those FMQ Pitfalls and Align YOUR Free Motion Quilting Stars!! It’s informative, fun and inspiring! 

Sign up is now open! 
Check made payable to Camaco Quilt Guild and mail to Denise B over the summer to be enrolled!

Free Motion Quilting (FMQ) on a domestic sewing machine – Basics & Beyond “Aligning Your FMQ Stars” 
$40.00 9:30am-4pm Tuesday Sept 12th, 2017 at the
Millman Center

Shorten the time it takes to finish your next quilt – learn to free motion quilt on your domestic machine using practice quilt sandwiches. We’ll cover thread, batting, tools, tension, tips and Basic stitches including loop, pebble, swirl, echo, and meander (Basics). We’ll talk about how to align your FMQ Stars. A full day session is most beneficial (Basics and Beyond) and, in addition to the Basic stitches it includes McTavishing and Orange Peel Grid Motifs. 
15 students maximum.

***Darning Feet --  If you feel you need a little more information on darning feet let me know and I'll throw together a small handout for you to share with the Guild.    Personally I prefer a rounded darning foot -- for a Bernina it would be like the #9 foot.  On a Janome, I recommend the open or closed toe darning foot that is horseshoe (open toe) or round (closed toe).  

My favorite tools & why (Slider, gloves, high quality thread, needles, wool bat) Impact of needle, thread and batting choices on free motion quilting Pin basting technique ~ Plus Stopping, starting, jumping, tips Motifs – we’ll draw and stitch a variety of fun motifs 

Supplies: **Notes available during workshop at a discounted price 

Sewing machine with a Darning or Free Motion Quilting Foot (open or closed) 

1 to 2 yards light colored quality cotton fabric (cut into fat quarters for quilt sandwiches) 

½ to 1 yard batting (**Quilter’s Dream 100% Wool recommended) 

Spools of high quality 50wt cotton thread (**Aurifil recommended) 

Quilting Gloves(**Machingers are my favorite) - 

Basting Safety Pins **80/12 Needles (Top Stitch, Quilting, or Sharpe Needles) Paper & pencil to practice FMQ motifs Marking tool: 

**Hera Marker~ **Air or Water Soluble Blue Marker ~Soapstone ~Other 

Optional: **Little Genie Magic Bobbin Washers (not recommended for Berninas)

Optional: **Supreme Slider by LaPeirre (regular or queen size) **comparable Teflon sheet 

Recommended: Extension table or surface (large flat, flush surface recommended) 

Extra: Bring a pillow for your chair!! The correct height helps avoid future aches and pains. 

Class Preparation: Cut fabric and batting into Fat Quarter quilt sandwiches prior to class. Cut fabric top slightly smaller than batting and backing fabric (1” all around) 

Questions ?? e-Mail Karen redbirdquiltco@gmail.com

http://www.redbirdquiltco.com/

Hi – I’m Karen L. Miller, “CEO” ;) of Redbird Quilt Co. 

I’m a quilter, designer, writer, editor, blogger and educator all wrapped in one crazy grandma! I started quilting in 2006 when my sister Janet asked me to join her for a $1 block of the month, Thangles – remember them? Thus the beginning of my Quilty adventures.

I dabbled in piecing for a couple of years until my first applique class (Needle-turn Applique from the talented Sharon Stroud) at which time I fell head over heels In Love with everything applique. Cotton applique led to wool applique and again I was in seventh heaven. Wool applique allowed me to finish a quilt top quickly so I learned to Free Motion Quilt (FMQ) on my home machine. For years I took every FMQ and Wool Class I could find – gosh that was fun! I guess you could say I was addicted. Panel after panel was quilted while I honed my FMQ skills.

In 2012 I began blogging about my Quilting passion and was fortunate to win some beautiful Family Tree fabric by Deb Strain for Moda. That was the start of my designing passion. I prepared a sweet little pillow design and submitted it to the Moda Bake Shop (MBS). It published in October of 2013.

Since then I’ve designed & published 5+“Recipes” as a Chef for the Moda Bake Shop – 2 of which placed in the MBS top 10 annual awards. The learning and growing and designing continued as I created my first ever for-fee pattern and began teaching at Quilters Corner in Ithaca, NY. The Candor, NY “New Quilters on the Block” Guild hired me to teach too! WOW – Maybe my love of quilting can become my retirement fun! Redbird Quilt Co. was born… Workshops were created… and the saga continues!

I continue my education with online classes and by attending professional training with my “quilty” mentors! I’m was thrilled to spend 2 days with the famed Karen McTavish in 2015 learning more FMQ Fun! Karen is an amazingly talented long arm quilter. She’s the bomb! I was recently featured on the American Patchwork & Quilting Radio Podcast with Pat Sloan – oh that was fun too! In the summer of 2016 I trained with award winning Long Arm quilter, Linda Hrcka of The Quilted Pineapple. I’m very fortunate to spend time with these amazing quilters! Thank you for inviting me to work with your Group – It’s sew fun to share my passion with others who are wild for Quilting! I look forward to our time together.

May Lecture and Workshop Information

Jane Hamilton will be our speaker and teacher in May! 

The lecture is "Antique and Modern Trunk Show"

The workshop is "Simple Steps to Art Quilting" 

The workshop will be at the Millman Center beginning at 9:30 AM till 4:00 PM on Thursday May 11th, 2017. A materials list link is below.

The cost for this workshop will be $30.00 paid in advance.  

There is an additional  $10.00 payable to the teacher the day of the class. 

There is a limit of 20 students first come first paid/served.

SIMPLE STEPS TO ART QUILTING

    No sewing machine

INSTRUCTOR JANE HAMILTON

Jane's Quilts

CLASS FEE $10  (Pattern some mixed media supplies, along with use of instructors paint,and other mixed media supplies)

• THIS IS A NO SEWING MACHINE CLASS
• A plastic trash bag that you are able to tape to the tabletop and use under your work.
• Paper Towels
• Fabric - At least five pieces white fabric (off white, designs, muslin, light colors can work too)  about 13” X 18“ (size can vary smaller or larger),(washed and pressed) One piece may be used to put on top of painted pieces when you iron to catch excess paint and water.  
• Pencil
• Painters tape or Masking Tape to hold fabric and trash bag to table
• Small container that will hold a little water (pint size plastic container).
• 8 or ten straight pins
• Paper and fabric scissors
• Assorted Fabric Scraps for embellishments.  Bring a lunch bag assortment. (Bird, tree, leaves, Cupcake, Shoe,etc.) - Pieces can be less than 6” square so bring small scraps.  Look for different textures - lines, grids, black and whites, beak.   
• You will need two or three decent but not expensive brushes, two flat and one round (approx. #8 size).   Round brush can be narrow but  one flat brush needs to be about ½ inch or ¾ across as you will be painting your fabric. The second flat brush can be ¼” to ½”. A firm bristle is best.  If the bristles are destroyed you will not be able to control your paint line..  If in doubt bring what you have and we will work with it.  Kids, flimsy paint by number brushes are not great to use and you may have to cut the brush end smaller so it is firmer if you bring this type of brush.  Cheap is ok, just not flimsy.
• Freezer Paper 2 or 3 sheets about 8 ½” x 11”
• Optional  - If you have a black or brown brush Pigma Pen or Pitt Marker bring it (.5 or whatever you have that is permanent and acid free) only if you have one do not go out and buy.  

Supply List Link to print

Open Sewing at the Millman this Summer!!

 Good news!!

We're approved to use the Millman Center on Weds July 6th and 20th, August 3rd and 17th and Sept 21st. We'll be sewing in the large room from 9:30 - 4:00. 

Come for as long as you would like and work on any sewing project you choose. 

Bring your own snacks, lunch  and drink. 

Thank you Joey for scheduling this time for us!!

Sewers, Start Your Engines!!! Jelly Roll Races May 21st!

Here's a note about the Jelly Roll Race for guild members on the 21st from Diane D.

Sewing machine

extra bobbins

sharp pair of scissors

40 to 42 2 1/2" by with of fabric strips

Please bring a snack to share

Bottles of water will be provided as well as paper plates napkins and forks.

Green Creek Fire House, 9 AM to 5 PM

Information From the Retreat on Half Square Triangles

2015 Quilt Retreat Was So Much Fun!

Now that everyone who made the Labrynth Quilt at the retreat is an expert on hst's here's some inspiration for making more creative quilts!

Chelsey and Denise shared information on using hst's at the retreat, how to make them with different methods including multiples at one time. They also shared how many different layouts there are once you get spinning the square and changing up the colors. Below are the links they used to gather the info they shared, along with a link to the handout they shared at the retreat. 

HST Layout Ideas from Field Trips in Fiber Blog

Modern Quilt Guild Victoria's Blog Post on HST's

HST Hand Out from 2015 Quilt Retreat

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Bias  Square  Method  

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 All information shared was found on the internet and not the property of Denise and Chelsey.

        

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April 2015 Meeting Minutes

April 2015 Minutes

Meeting started:        7:00pm

Attendance:   43

Guests:            Theresa Fusco, our speaker

Treasurer’s report:   $XXXXX

Committees:

·      Charity           Kits were made available for members to use for the snowball quilts we will be donating to CASA. Most kits are 50 6 inch squares of fabric that you will need to add 220 2 inch squares, sashing and/or borders and backing to complete the quilts. There were a limited amount of the kits that included the 2 inch squares. There is some backing fabric available also. There are directions for how to make the blocks on the page Charity Projects 2015. Don’t forget to add the date you turned in your donation by your name on their list when you turn in your donations so you get your chance to win some fun prizes at the end of the year.

Snowball Charity Quilt Sample

·      Program         Don’t forget the magazine challenge is due in September. Directions are available on the blog under the page Magazine Challenge 2015, or ask Denise and Helen for details. There will be a guest speaker at our June meeting and a workshop the following day. Diane D’s cousin is going to teach the June 11th workshop. You can make a table runner , a lap quilt, wall or baby quilt. The "Beach Balls in The Sand" quilt was designed especially for us and is a fun way to learn how to do set in circles. All for just $15.   Please pay for the workshop at the May meeting. There are still spaces available.

·      Ways & Means           Joey advised they are still collecting yardage for a fabric sale in the fall. Please mark your fabric with the size and give to a ways and means committee member. They prefer from ½ yard or bigger, but will take fat quarters too.

·      Refreshments            Bernie advised she will contact the people responsible for refreshments at a later date.

·      Retreat           The $75.00 deposit for the October retreat is due at the May meeting, please arrive a few minutes early to pay and bring the completed form Doreen distributed when you signed up.

New Business:           We are lucky to have guest speakers at our next two meetings, we will have show n tell but, we are limiting it to one item per member.  At May’s meeting we will do it at the end of our meeting, when our speaker Jessica Sketulty of Quilty Habit is done with her presentation on Modern Quilting.

Next meetings notes:  Jessica Sketulty of Quilty Habit is done is speaking on Modern Quilting.

April’s meeting notes:           Theresa Fusco presented her beautiful quilts she has made throughout her life, there were contemporary, art and traditional quilts along with wall hangings and some wearable items. She shared some fun and inspiring moments from her life.

Respectfully submitted,

Denise~

June 11th Workshop still available, Beach Balls in the Sand

At the June 11th workshop  you can make a table runner , a lap quilt, wall or baby quilt. The "Beach Balls in The Sand"  quilt was designed especially for us and is a fun way to learn how to do set in circles. Available to our members for just $15.

  

Beach Balls in the Sand!

Lap Quilt 72” X 72” (25 x 25)	Wall or Baby Quilt 48” x 48” (3 x 3)	Table Runner 42” X  18” (1 x 3)
(225) 5” scrappy beige/tan  squares or (19) assorted beige fat quarters Cut prior to class to save time	(81) 5” scrappy beige/tan  squares or (19) assorted fat quarters  Cut prior to class to save time	(27) 5” scrappy beige/tan  squares Cut prior to class to save time
Beach Balls (13) fat quarters - Bright Prints and Tone on Tone. 10” scrap pieces will work too. Make sure you have a good variety (40) pieces if using scraps.	Beach Balls (14) 10” scrap pieces for beach balls	Beach Balls Variety of scrap pieces for the pieced beach balls (3”x4”) One Fabric beach ball (1) 10” square  for each block.
Accent strip – ½ yard	Accent Strip – ¼ yard	none
Border – 1 ½ yards	Border – 1 yard	Border – ½ yard
Binding – ½ yd if cut across width	Binding – ½ yd if cut across width	Binding- 1/3 yd if cut across width
Backing	Backing	Backing
Wide Rick Rack ,Freezer paper, zipper foot, YLI invisible thread, adhesive spray, paper scissors, fabri-solvi,
Dresden ruler (only if you have one), Roxanne's basting glue or similar, Iron and General Sewing Supplies.